jackie hayes

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 01:42 AM) Uribe was swinging for the fences on 2 strikes with men on. Just make contact. Would you ask a pig to moo? Uribe would swing hard if his mother was tied to the railroad tracks by a guy w/ a handlebar moustache. He doesn't know any other way.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 01:18 AM) Willie Harris had plenty of time last year to showcase his skills, and he performed in a manner that the Sox decided to go after another player to start at 2nd base. That tells me all I need to know about Harris. I'm not saying the Sox really think much of Harris, but replacing him was the lowest priority. They stuck to their price for Iguchi. I think it was more of a calculated risk that paid off handsomely. They also picked up a bunch of relief pitchers, and from everything I've heard Ozzie loves Adkins, so I don't know how useful this type of reasoning is.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 01:12 AM) FYI, Willie's career AVG is .239. Oh. Well, his stats were good last year, and his minor league numbers.... Hasn't this debate happened often enough? But .226 this year -- which is what you cited -- is not very impressive.

QUOTE(Brian @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 01:09 AM) My fault. Just hoping they would start calling the game soon. Don't wanna listen to Morgan. No, I can understand. Doesn't matter how worthy the cause, I get tired of not hearing the call (or the half ass call while they chat up whatever -- sometimes just some promotion for rich guys). And I think mute is better than Morgan.

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 01:07 AM) It was a really nice play. He still can't hit for s*** though. .226 AVG now. :puke 60-odd abs. If a starter had a .220 avg after only a few weeks, noone would make anything of it, especially if it was just a slump for a week or so that pulled the avg down.

QUOTE(Brian @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 01:06 AM) I understand the prostate thing is a good cause, but does this guy need to be in the radio booth for 2 innings?? Geezus! Same topic, but a different guy anyway. Last inning was Milken, this is Gretzky.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 01:03 AM) ...yet. Good to see you can have fun w/ this.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 12:57 AM) Thanks Jackie. Hell, I had to stop myself from complaining about Pods defense again, as I figured the Sox golden boy would get another free pass from my fellow Sox fans. All I was saying was that it sure seems like Pods takes a ton of called 3rd strikes. Jimenez had 59 of them last year, I do know that for a fact. Eh, I'm just pulling yr chain. Complaining about Pods strike outs, when he's been so much better w/ walks and ks than we could've expected, just kinda struck me as funny. So very fathom.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 12:52 AM) Is Pods giving D. Jimenez a run for most strikeouts looking in a season? There's way overblown negativity, and then there's fathom.

Rooney and Farmer talking light about Pods going out, lol. I am a bit surprised that he hasn't hit one by accident yet. Also the prostate cancer thing again. Which reminds me, I do love me a good tomato. A good heirloom tomato. Mmm, mmm, mmm.

QUOTE(Wanne @ Jun 20, 2005 -> 12:40 AM) And why couldn't Dye bunt there? Is he above that or considered too much of a "slugger"? Well...he didn't bunt in KC. Then he was on the A's.

I never used the word "diagnosis" and I don't care how it's labelled. He stated that she responds, he now claims that he never said anything like that. Diagnosis or not, that's just a lie. I'm not the one "spinning" here.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jun 17, 2005 -> 11:30 AM) Show me again where he said that she was responsive ... in the complete and proper context. Balta already gave you that. "Based on the footage provided to me, which was part of the facts of the case, she does respond." The full quote: Balta did NOT take it out of context. Frist said, "she does respond". Yes, it is "based on the footage". Which doesn't change anything. Whatever the basis, he still made the statement. If the footage wasn't adequate evidence, then he shouldn't have said anything. Since he did, he should be held accountable.

For the record, I wasn't spamming the thread. I meant that I'm tired of pop stars thinking that I care about their politics. I was responding to the quote in the original post, I think that's fair game. And I'd take U2 over PF, but that's neither here nor there.

Aww, that's so cute. The pandering towards U2 has made all European rock bands think they're important. Adorable. Can't wait for the new Scorpions tour!

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Jun 17, 2005 -> 01:41 AM) Are you talking about where he makes a hand gesture about the buildings falling and having a chuckle? That's a good point but I'm sure many in that whole "death to America" crowd were quite happy, with their whole dancing on the streets thing. All the conspiracies are probably only that, but the opportunism that the Bush adminstration has shown after the attacks forces some to question 9/11, sadly, naturally. It was more than that, c'mon, you have to be fair to be credible. He talks explicitly about how the execution exceeded what they had hoped for. A part of the tape: From this CNN transcript. NOTHING "forces" anyone to suspect that the Bush administration conspired to murder thousands. If someone ignores the evidence and supports bad reasoning, that's an idiot, no matter how the tragedy was used (wrongly, for both the Patriot Act and Iraq). There's an episode of Will & Grace, a while back, where Karen makes an accusation, adding something like 'How do I know that? Because I really, really think so.' Same logic here, and no less absurd.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Jun 17, 2005 -> 01:25 AM) I'd merely say it's a slight possibility that I won't completely dispel. There are obvious ways the Bush administration had earned criticism, ways that are in no way created through conspiracy theories. Also I think many believe it wasn't Bush or his administration but a group other than the over-hyped Al-Qaeda responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Even after the OBL tape? That plus everything else, I'm pretty convinced.

Drew, easy. Health is the only question w/ him. When he's right, he's all right.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Jun 17, 2005 -> 12:48 AM) I'm not making an argument. Is that at least the suggestion that you're floating, if not arguing? B/c that's what I take away from the conspiracy websites that discuss this Silverstein quote. And then what is your position on all this conspiracy garbage? Even if it's not really Dante, I like the "hottest places in hell" maxim. On 9/11 and the reaction, I side firmly w/ the Bush administration. As much as I would like to see the Bushies out of office, they did right here (at least in the immediate reaction). Theories like these sound like very crass attempts to cash in on 9/11 by the left -- by claiming that Bush actually conspired to murder thousands of people in order to pass something like the Patriot Act. It's disgusting and baseless and no more worthy of mention than any random Area 51 X Files fan post. A zero.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 08:35 PM) WTC 7 entire south structure received heavy damage in the collapse of both towers. Rather than risk people working around it, he suggested it would have been the best option to demolish the building. I agree. Either it was going down on its own, or due to controlled explosives. Which makes you wonder what would have happened if one, or perhaps both, Twin Towers hadn't of collapsed. It would have been impossible to rescue anyone with a 1400 ft tower on the brink of destruction right next to you. IMO, the WTC Tower 2 would have been demolished no matter what. The damage was too extensive and was at such a pivotal point at the tower to risk rebuilding. I don't believe it would have been possible to install the explosives for a controlled collapse from the outside, nor could people have gone inside w/ the fire. (I'm open to correction, I have no expertise in these matters.) So I think Kip is making the following argument: WTC 7 was demolished, but a demolition could not have been set up. Therefore the explosives must have been in place before 9/11 as part of the government's plan to create a war. One problem is, what excuse was to be made for the building's collapse? Certainly no plane was going to be flown into it. The bigger problem is that there is not one credible source for any of this sick s***. This thread started w/ some no-name economist making claims about engineering and physics. Wait, wait, let me guess -- the U.S. government pays off every single competent, well-respected engineer in the world, so this is the best we could do. Is that it? Bill Frist was ten thousand times more qualified to pronounce on Terri Schiavo. If you have no credible source, don't bring it up at all. This is just disgusting.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jun 16, 2005 -> 05:22 PM) So what's changed? He is still basing everything on the video footage? Frist didn't say, 'I said she responds, but only based on the video tape.' He said, "I never said, She responded." He did say that, whatever it was based on. Which makes it a lie. Frist seems to be making the argument that merely by saying 'In my opinion', or 'Based on my viewing of the tape', his statements were essentially never made. Bs, he did say those things, and if the source (or his knowledge, since he has no expertise about the brain) wasn't sufficient to back up his statements, it's his fault for saying anything. This caviling makes Kerry's I-voted-for-the-bill-before-voting-against-it sound wholly convincing by comparison. Frist is slime, I pray this comes back to bite him in the ass in some future election.

Link to a Popular Mechanics article analyzing a bunch of these...I don't know, I don't even think they qualify as "ideas". Basic conclusion, they're all crap, w/ much dishonesty used to spread the disinformation. But hey, what do specialists, scientists, and engineers really have on self fancying Clancy crazies, right?

I'm worried about this. The international flavor's great, but won't the site have problems when the admins don't talk American gooder than the most the rest? Seriously, congrats DBAHO. All the praise in this thread is fair dinkum.

Well, what the hell. After all the work I put into my "Eric Chavez is a White Sox player RIGHT NOW, By the time you read this Chavez is wearing a Sox uni and has already hit 4 hr in one game for us" thread. I mean, it's just suggestive is all.

Go Cheat.